You don’t need a chemistry degree to make these DIY edible flower lollipops. Easier than you think you just a lollipop mold, sticks, sugar, light corn syrup, water, flavoring oil, a candy thermometer, and edible flowers. They’re beautiful for a bridal shower, goody bag, or birthday party. I bought my edible flowers from a local microgreen farm.
Lightly spray your lollipop molds with cooking spray. Combine sugar, water, and corn syrup over high heat. Cook until the mixture reaches the hard crack stage (300 degrees). Pour some candy mixture over the flowers and stick them into a sucker mold. Let harden. Easily remove from mold, cover, and tie.
What you need:
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup corn syrup
1/3 cup water
1 dram candy flavoring (I chose watermelon)
Cooking spray
Fresh, edible flowers
Saucepan
I bought my edible flowers from Legacy Farms. They’re a Tallahassee microgreen farm growing and delivering fresh microgreens to your door. They sell the majority of their greens to restaurants but if you reserve a week or two ahead of time you can snag some of these beauties.
Instructions
Spray your mold with cooking spray and set it aside. Make sure your mold is made for hard candy and not just chocolate. Hard candy needs to reach the hard-crack stage of 300 degrees F.
In a small saucepan, stir together the sugar, corn syrup, and water. Double recipe to make more. Note, you must use all of the mixtures before it sets because you cannot reheat it again.
Clip the candy thermometer to the side of the pan. Bring mixture to a boil over high heat. Continue to heat without stirring until the bubbling mixture reaches the hard-crack stage (300 degrees F).
Remove the pan immediately from heat and stir in the flavoring. Option to stir in a small amount of food coloring too. Just a little. I chose not to.
Fill each mold with an edible flower face down and a stick. Once the mixture has stopped bubbling, use a metal spoon to drop it into the molds.
Quickly spoon just enough hot candy over the top of the flower to cover it completely.
Allow the candy to harden completely, and then remove it from the molds.
Tips
If the mixture starts to cool and gets too hard there is no way to warm it back up and reuse it, which is why it’s important to work quickly but carefully. I tried. It is a brown caramel color and burns your pan.
Also…do NOT pour the extra sugar caramel into your disposal. If you do, you must pour steaming hot water down it immediately until it works again then ice. Thanks, dad.
Place each edible flower lollipop in a sucker bag, then tie with ribbon or string.
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